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Provides an adapter layer between core routines for converting to and
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from UTF8 and other encodings. In essence, a way to give multiple
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existing Unicode modules a single common interface so you don't have to
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know the underlying implementations to do simple UTF8 to-from other
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character set encoding conversions. As such, it wraps the
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Unicode::String, Unicode::Map8, Unicode::Map and Jcode modules in a
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standardized and simple API.
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This also provides general character set conversion operation based on
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UTF8 - it is possible to convert between any two compatible and
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supported character sets via a simple two step chaining of conversions.
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As with most things Perlish - if you give it a few big chunks of text to
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chew on instead of lots of small ones it will handle many more
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characters per second.
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By design, it can be easily extended to encompass any new charset
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encoding conversion modules that arrive on the scene.
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